The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-14
Advertising Kansas.

OUR GLORIOUS STATE AND HER
COUNTLESS ADVANTAGES.
1t is said that Kansas is the best adj
vertised state in the union. But it
greatly deserves it, and it is a most
benevolent enterprise to do it. Don't
you see, if One-third of what the ad-
vertisements say are true, the people of
the world ought to know it? They
ought to have chance to come and see
for themselves what all this bother is
about, and if they come we know
they will stay, or at least wish they
could. Some of them just can't stay,
but they leave some of their money in
corner lots and corn fields, and when
they get back they send their boys and
girls, cousins, aunts, uncles and
nephews to come and look over them
and buy more for themselves. Isn't it
just marvellous how they are coming !?
Some of them leave home, New Eng
land. or old England, Baltimore or
Berlin, Ohio or Odessa, on the pretense
of seeing the mountains-the high
ROckies-or California, but they stop
off in Kansas to investigate a boom.
And they do investigate, all of them,
with results above named. And why
shouldn't they stop here? There's as
much land here to the square mile as
anywhere, and there's 81, 31S of them.
There is air here as fresh as any in the
world, just fiecked little with smoke
from five thousand miles of railway and
sundry cities of forty or fifty thousand
inhabitants and some coal mining dis
tricts and coke ovens, and zinc
works and lead furnaces. There
are glorious uplands here, gently
rolling high prairie stretching out
like the billowy sea. There are
valleys here so fertile that the truthful
story of their fertility sounds like
fable to the inhabitants of the sunris-
ing states. Mountains there are none,
but hills rounded and mound like,
level plateaus, carved by old Aqua out
of solid earth with ribs of rock and
bands of color GLORIOUS as the gates of
heaven" There are rivers whose
serpentine wanderings were but family
typefied by old Meander. There are
springs gushing from the rocks as
though Moses had smitten the lime
stone. There are orchards where the
pippins rival the fruit of hesperides
and the cluster Of grapes are such as
JoSeph's friend, the butler, would
have pressed into the cup of Pharoah.
There are delis where the wild plums
rival the apricot, gardens where aspar-
agus and cabbage beat those of Hol-
land, and plantations where cotton
grows like in the famous sea islands.
Perhaps you like scenery. We have
said there are no mountains, but if
woody dingles, rocky dells, strong
rivers make sceneries, you have those
in Kansas. Nay more; we have
crowded regions where the sandstone
is in masses of standing rocks, pulpits,
pinnacles, towers and caps. Then
when wheat is ripe in the golden belt
of the state, where can
you look on a more gorgeous sight?-
and the corn-and the maize, then tall
and rich dark green-streamers waving
in the most joyous breezes that blow
from heaven-a million acres of it
more or less, tells of coming plenty for |
both men and beasts. Oh, yesl We
shall keep on advertising Kansas; the |
people ought to know about it. We |
want just two million more of them |
from the east and we will breed the |
rest-of higher, grander, improved |
type of mantle rest of the ten mil |
lion with which the state will be peo-
pied in the year of our Lord 1900
EfBney County Democrat.